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Tom Steyer Hastily Backpedals After Suggesting Nuclear War Could Serve as ‘Course Correction’ for Trump.(full title). Tom Steyer — the Democratic megadonor leading the charge for Donald Trump‘s impeachment — recently suggested that it might take some drastic developments to undo the impact the president has had on America. The billionaire recently gave an interview to Rolling Stone, where he argued that the Democratic grassroots and politicians on the Left have to make Trump’s removal from office their number one priority.

In some precincts, this is what passes for a joke about libertarians: "Ayn Rand, Rand Paul, and Paul Ryan walk into a bar. The bartender serves them tainted alcohol because there are no regulations. They die." The humor there eludes me, but it must work for someone: That alleged witticism has garnered tens of thousands of Twitter "likes" and retweets.Unabashed libertarians can be wacky — at the Libertarian Party convention in Florida last weekend, one contenderperformed a striptease — but they aren't anarchists. Libertarianism isn't a philosophy of dog-eat-dog or of a society with no protections for health and safety. It is a philosophy...

Q. My 13 year-old daughter came home from boarding school last weekend and proceeded to announce at a family dinner that she is a witch and a Wiccan, which apparently is some witch religion. Then she told us she is an atheist. My mother, who was present and is a big fan of yours, told me you would advise me not to tolerate this. So, I took away my daughter's Wiccan books and forbade associations with peers who are Wiccans. In response, she rebelled, and the more I tried to control her, the more she rebelled. I recently have started...